Revisiting "The Stand". Very relevant. Pandemic, quarentines, facemasks, big govt overstepping.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand
Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday. The plot centers on a pandemic of a weaponized strain of influenza that kills almost the entire world population. The few survivors, united in groups, establish a new social system and engage in confrontation with each other. In writing the book, King sought to create an epic in the spirit of The
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